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Faculty Members

Joseph Wilder is editor and publisher of the regional quarterly, Journal of the Southwest, and former director (for 32 years) of the Southwest Center. He was raised in Tucson, in a family with territorial roots, his mother being born in Globe in 1910. After high school, he spent a gap year in...[more information]

Maribel Alvarez, Ph.D., is an anthropologist, folklorist, curator, and community arts expert who has documented the practice of more than a dozen of the country’s leading emerging and alternative artistic organizations. She is Associate Dean for Community Engagement for the College of Social and...[more information]

Jeffrey Banister is associate editor and research social scientist in the Southwest Center, and associate research professor in the School of Geography and Development. As associate editor of Journal of the Southwest, Banister has built on the university’s tradition of collaborative...[more information]

Gary Nabhan, Ph.D., W.K. Kellogg Chair in Southwest Borderlands Food and Water Security, is an ethnobiologist, agroecologist, conservation biologist and cultural geographer trained at the University of Arizona and Prescott College. He is author or editor of 26 books translated into 6 languages...[more information]

Dr. Emma Perez earned a PH.D. in history from UCLA and taught in the Department of History at the University of Texas, El Paso from 1990 to 2003, where she also functioned as Chair. From 2003 to 2017, she taught in the Department of Ethnic Studies at University of Colorado, Boulder, also serving...[more information]

Robin C. Reineke is Assistant Research Social Scientist at the Southwest Center, and is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Colibri Center for Human Rights. Her research and teaching interests, centered in anthropology, include forensics...[more information]

Thomas E. Sheridan, Ph.D., is Research Anthropologist at the Southwest Center and Professor of Anthropology in the University of Arizona School of Anthropology. Tom has conducted ethnographic and ethnohistoric research in the Southwest and northern Mexico since 1971. He directed the Mexican...[more information]

David Yetman is research social scientist and has been at the Southwest Center since 1992. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Arizona in 1972. Yetman’s research has been primarily directed towards the state of Sonora, its indigenous people, their history, and how they...[more information]